[Cabbie]

Good point guys,  to be fair to the US, every nation simply looks for its own interest. I have yet to see a nation go out of its way to help other nations just for the spirit of charity. They are all doing this because they know they can get some sort of pay back or leverage from it.  

America simply tends to push other nations like Aussie around simply because it is advantagous for them and they can get away with it but if the tables were turned I'm sure Austraila would do the same to the US.

And I agree, dispite of being a huge part of a continent the US's insular attitude make them come off like an island nation

[Rictor]

Don't talk to me about scraps from the table. The parade of spineless asskissing and gutless accomodation that is issuing forth from the Canadian press is recent days is really quite pathetic. The Prime Minster publicly rebuked Carolyn Parish (an MP who is known for making anti-American* statements) for calling Bush a "war-like man" in the wake of the election, despite the fact that he is, and has publicly paraded the fact.

Originally posted by aldo_14
I think the only real complaint I can have against the US, is that it (i.e. the government, usually regardless of the actual party in charge) seems to have a very insular attitude which means that international opinion is often ignored or brushed aside as irrelevant.  And there is nothing more galling to a people as to be treated as invisible.

So, you don't actually resent that they lord over the world, but that, what, they don't consult you while doing it? The problem surely is not the fact that they responsible for untold suffering, but that they haven't, in recent times only, bothered to get it rubber-stamped by the UN in an effort to pay lip-service to "multilateralism"? C'mon, you're going to have to do better than that.

*calling the US government "bastards" and suggesting that Canada not join the "coalition of the idiots", those who plan to the join the US in its missle defense scheme.